what items old or new are made of zinc besides pennies and wheel weights? thanks guys
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what items old or new are made of zinc besides pennies and wheel weights? thanks guys
Dry cell battery cases, anodes from boats.
Some pipe couplers
I have an old baker's table that has a zinc covering on it. I believe some old wash tubs/sinks may be as well.
It is typically not used by itself, but with other metals such as copper to make brass, or used for galvanizing.
the most zinc ive found was in shingle piles. they go around the chimneys
Gah! Zinc is the bane of my scrapping existence!! lol. Just when I think I know what all contains zinc and seperate my stuff the yard guy pulls something out of my cast pile and calls it zinc. Anywho, some heavy parts of a lamp middle are zinc, faucet handles are zinc, mmmmm.....the round part at the end of grill hookups too - the part that screws into the tank that has the brass nose in it. You have to go by weight too, zinc/die cast is heavier. I used to go by the color of an item but they really isn't good either because some darker stuff I think is zinc he tells me is cast. I hate figuring out zinc!!!!!!
The brackets that hold celing fan blades in place
^^^Yep! I forgot about those!
The couplers and elbows and other fittings from electrical conduit are zinc. So are some of the handles for screen doors.
Yes lots of items as said. I have turned in 41 lbs of "die cast zinc" this year and only made $5.10 on it! LOL
I have been to 10 or so different scrap yards, and never have seen a zinc price, or had any problems with yard workers pulling out said zinc items...It's all Aluminum, same price...Cast and extruded can be mixed in same bucket too.
Are the two bearing brackets on these motors zinc?
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I find a lot of these, easy work, sometimes the brackets are Ali which are easy to tell apart.
I undo the 2 screws & pop out the armature & bearings.
Then just bash that end sideways & the part with the copper coil falls out, then push the inner part out & break off one end of the plastic bit & unwind the 50Gms of copper wire on it.
If you put a drop of acid, pool acid for instance, on zink it will fizz. Aluminum will not fizz.Quote:
Originally Posted by newattitude
Starbits
sacrificial anodes from hot water tanks,
zinc sells as "die-cast" for me, .20/lb. the last bucket i sold was like $12 or something, half full. stupid zinc
And steel boat hullsQuote:
Originally Posted by gustavus
And sacrificial anodes from the bottom of caskets - not that you're ever likely to come across one to scrap!
Hard drive mounting brackets on rack mount server hot swap Hard drives. I have literally a ton of them. not worth fuel to haul them. Last year they were calling them cast alu.
Trophies that aren't plastic or brass are die cast. Some call this zinc.
Olddude, next time I'm in your area, I need to come by and look at that stuff. I might be able to move it for you. I'll check on it.